Florida nurse's video rant on bad flu season goes viral

04 February, 2018, 01:59 | Author: Inez Murphy

"If you don't have a true emergency this is not the time to come into the emergency room", Katherine Locklear, an emergency room nurse from Pensacola says in a viral video that has been shared more than 5.5 million times since Saturday. One local nurse has gotten so frustrated with the way some people have handled the abnormally harsh season that she recorded a video from her vehicle after a long day of work to vent.

She added that between 25 to 30 patients are sitting for hours in the emergency waiting rooms. "Don't bring people with problems or kids because the flu affects them more aggressively".

The pièce de résistance of the whole video may be Lockler's "magic trick" in which she demonstrates sneezing into her elbow, a recommended way to prevent the spread of germs so your sleeve catches the germs, not your hands (or everyone else around you, if you didn't bother to cover your mouth at all).

"Let me show you again in slow motion!" she said, before doing it one more time.

Then Lockler dramatically fakes a sneeze into her arm.

A mother of four, Lockler conceded that her tone in the video fell off somewhat like a mother conversing with her young children, yet she didn't intend to undermine anybody's insight in the video.

Just don't go to the emergency room if you're healthy, she said.

Katherine Lockler has worked as a nurse for 10 years.

"I think there's a little bit of sarcasm in my voice because the instructions were given so many times and they were not received well", she told the News Journal. "I tend to be sarcastic in all my speaking, but if it's taken wrong I would definitely apologize to that group that misheard my message because of my tone".

A Florida nurse has offered some frank advice for people whose lax hygiene is contributing to a deadly flu outbreak, including "wash your stinking hands!" "The message is still flawless, yet in the event that the tone was hostile, that was not the goal".

A harsh flu season is in full swing across the United States, with a sharp increase in the number of older people and children being hospitalized, according to the CDC.

This year's flu season is a particularly bad one, and perhaps you are dismayed to hear that some people have gotten the flu vaccine and still came down with the flu.

The Post's Lena Sun has reported that since the start of flu season in October, almost 12,000 people have been hospitalized - the highest number of those were adults older than 50 and children younger than 4, according to the most recent data from the CDC.

The video has gone viral this week, garnering 5.3 million views, 101,000 shares and 25,000 likes on Facebook as of February 2. "We're putting ourselves in the thick of some nasty germs to help".

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